OSU Insider-Should Ohio State Fire Jake Diebler??mp3

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1:00Tough game. We're going to talk about it. Obviously, a lot of chatter about Jake DiBler's future. We're going to talk about that as well. But also, when you send those wonderful superchats, it helps to go towards the pay it forward, which is our military and our first responders. We're going to look out for them because they always look out for us. Nevada Buck, brother, brother, brother, brother. What's up, man? I'm sad, Dave, I'm not going to lie. I'm sad that we lost today. We lost again that we probably shouldn't have lost, but we lost it nonetheless. It's just sad. I'm also sad because this is probably the last basketball show that we're going to do for 20-26. From here on out, we're just going to be football, football, football, which is great, which I love talking about. The Buck I see has ended a little too prematurely for me today and just sad. You being the ex-great player that you were, I'm more interested in your thoughts initially.

2:04Because I've read the Twitter verse and the Ohio State fan base on the board thought. For some reason, you know who's going to allow the Irish catching a lot of the flak for the game? Chris Stoff Tilly, for some reason, which is, I find absolutely bizarre, because I actually thought he played pretty good today and, you know, I mean, other than Mobley, who clearly was our best player, I thought Tilly might have been our second or at least third best player. But for some reason, he's just catching straight from him and I just wondered when you were watching the game, were you thinking, wow, Chris Stoff Tilly is killing us or did your thoughts go elsewhere? Well, I mean, the hope, the first half was bad. And so Chris Stoff Tilly, Chris Stoff Tilly played his part in the bad first half. Was he the worst on the, on the floor? No, but he was being goofy and he was being a little soft around the rim, which is something he does.

3:04I think he's an okay player. He has some skill for his size, but man, it's just like he needs to play bigger. He needs to be more physical consistently. And I think that's some of the people's complain about Tilly, finishing around a rim stronger to me. He's too hesitant. It's just like, dude, like, he is who he is. He has his 11 points of game this year and he scored 10 today. He has his four rebounds of game and he had six. He has his two assists. He played better in the second half. He played better in the second half. I'll give you that. I mean, you know, I just, I just feel like, like, man, when you're looking for super villains in this game, it's hard to look at somebody who overachieved over their season averages as the problem for the game. Like, I felt the rest were letting them play an extremely physical game in the first half. And I didn't think that a nerd doe, how state's benefit. I think they let, you know, they let TCU get away with a lot and then at the end of the

4:04game, there were some, I felt marginal calls that they called, you know, one, we're up to three and they call it a three point play. I'm barely any contact and all that said, it was a little incongrued, but yeah, no, I mean, I agree. Yeah, I think I said, Tilly, I mean, to me, I thought the story of the game, you lose a two point game. You have the all-time leading score in the history of Ohio State basketball, who averages 20 points of game. And he has one basket in the second half of a game where you're down 15 and a half time. Now, that is a problem right there. That is an issue. You can't shoot 33% from the field and score 10 points. One of the all-time leading score in Ohio State history in a game and, you know, Bruce Thornton, I couldn't, I mean, I don't know, was that his worst game ever at Ohio State? Maybe. No. I mean, he picked the peculiar, I mean, there's never been a bigger game that he's played worse, you know what I'm saying? Because I mean, there you go. I think I agree with that.

5:05Yeah. I mean, he's the all-time leading score in school history, the all-time leading score. And he shot 33% from the field and had one basket in the second half. I mean, I don't, but we're talking about Christoph Tilly. I don't know. I'm just confused, to be honest with you. No, let me be clear. I don't agree with the take that Tilly is the number one guy like, oh, it was Tilly. I don't agree with that. I think he could have played better in the first half. Like, but that's just a carryover complaint from me. I like Tilly, but I don't love Tilly because of the stuff I already mentioned. But that's not the first person I'm calling out is Tilly. I agree. Now, let's get to Bruce Thornton. And we'll just talk about the game. So obviously, you could see the game plan from TCU. This is nothing new. I mean, teams like all through the schedule blitzed Bruce Thornton, double shading. Just think about it. We mostly talk about football. So who are you football people?

6:07Just look at it as a rolling coverage, right? Rolling coverage over to Jeremiah Smith's side. Think about it like that. If you don't know basketball, that will. It's like, when Bruce Thornton get the ball to top of the key, they were keying on him. When he would penetrate, they would shade over. It was like, it had like a diamond like following him around. If you look at what TCU was doing, their game plan was to take away Bruce Thornton and make the rest of the guys beat you. That was the game plan. So with that said, to your point, Nevada, it's tough. You don't want to force things and basically plan to the hands and turn the ball over and try to do too much. But you also have to be very, very aggressive when you're when that when you pick your spots, when there's a hole or when there's a weakness or there's a lane, you have to attack. And when you attack, you have to know how to attack. And this is what I mean. I think Bruce got frustrated. He was very frustrated.

7:07He was frustrated when he did have opportunities later in the game. To me, he made the incorrect play that he normally doesn't make. He's very smart. Like going into the body of punch instead of pulling up for that little 10-foot shot that he can hit so well, he tried to go in and just got swallowed up by punch. And so the game plan frustrated Bruce Thornton. We didn't come out with the same energy. We didn't come out with the same physicality. TCU played like they've been in the tournament recent like they have. They've been in the tournament in the recent years. We came out like we, you know, like the stage was big. Now, obviously we adjusted and we settled down and we were right in the game. But that's always hard to overcome that when you're coming out like that. And so it was a lot of the same stuff I saw all year Nevada. But we were able to steal fight back. But it just wasn't enough, man. But yeah, to your point, Bruce Thornton. And let me say this last thing because I loved Bruce Thornton.

8:08And I was talking to my guys who came by earlier watching the game. Bruce Thornton is a great kid. He's a really good basketball player. He has skill and talent. But I think today showed why. Yes, he's the leading scorer because he's been here for four years. He's been consistent. Great kid. He stayed with a house state. But he's not he's not he's not Michael red. He's not Mike Conley. He's not Jim Jackson. He's just not to that level. Because again, even with that attention on him, yes, be patient. Get it to your guys. But you've got to be aggressive and still take over and still overcome that. If you're an elite like elite Hooper Hooper, Nevada, go ahead. I know you want to jump in. Well, I mean, there's so many things to say. I know enough about basketball from having played not at the highest levels, but played a lot of basketball in my life. And having coach, not at the highest level, the coach a lot of basketball in my life,

9:09that it was evident from the first couple of possessions that Bruce would literally pick up his dribble 30 feet away from the basket and stop and look and then he would go standing at the corner. And they had completely buffled and that and that point, as the head coach, you have to take the ball out of his hands. You have to. And I'm screaming the whole first half. I'm like, get let mobility, let mobility run the offense. Do not get the ball out of his hands. You know, and it's the fact that it took an entire half on something that I literally recognized at 1733 to go in the first first half. It took it. Once we switched to mobility, we erased a 15 point deficit and went to a five point lead. That's a 20 point swing. How can I just I don't understand how something that's so obvious took them so long to figure out? I just I'm just I'm really struggling with it.

10:10Like if somebody's going to take something away from you, then they're leaving something else open. You don't just keep going into the teeth of that over and over. Again, because clearly the authority didn't have it, whether he was frustrated, buffalogue, covered, whatever was going on. It's tax season. And by now, I know we're all a bit tired of numbers, but here's an important one you need to hear, $16 billion. That's how much money and refunds the IRS flagged for possible identity fraud. Here's another one. One in four honest, hardworking tax paying Americans has been a victim of identity theft. But it's not all grim news. Life lock monitors millions of data points per second for your personal information and alerts you to threats you could easily miss on your own. If your identity is stolen, life locks US based restoration specialists will fix it backed by another good number. The million dollar protection package. In fact, restoration is guaranteed or your money back. Don't face identity theft and financial losses alone.

11:12There's strength in numbers with life lock identity theft protection for tax season and beyond. Visit lifelock.com slash iHeart and save up to 40% your first year. That's 40% off at lifelock.com slash iHeart. Terms apply. I've got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi, Dan. Hey, how's it going today? It's going good, man. Tell us who you are and what you do. I'm Dan Morgan. I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan and Morgan, which is America's largest injury law firm. That's pretty awesome. I think I saw billboard years recently that said 20 billion won. 20 billion is insane number. Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It's actually, I think, somewhere north probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and better and our army grows. So the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on. Awesome. So how does someone get in contact with Morgan and Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident? Probably the easiest way is dialing pound law.

12:13That's pound 529 from your cell phone. We are always open. Our call center is always waiting to take your call 24 7 365. Wow. Dan Morgan from Morgan and Morgan, America's largest injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the show. Thanks for having me. Visit forthepeople.com for an office near you. Yeah. I mean, I just he couldn't beat anybody off the dribbling. I saw how I say I'm like, why are we slowing the game down? Why are we having Bruce Thornton's out there just dribbling to nothing to eight down the clock and then running some hurried set and getting some crappy shot up. And you know, you know what I'm saying? I'm like, man, we have got to attack the rim and I have people saying, oh, we don't attack or how state doesn't it? We don't. That's not what we plan. I'm like, you have to play that way. You cannot let this TCU defense set up against you when you've got the ball. I mean, Bruce Thornton's got to be able because he's not the biggest guy. He's not Evan Turner. He's not, you know, he's not six foot six. So you've at least got to be able to beat somebody off the dribble. So if you've got the thing, you've got to be able to create something.

13:15I don't think he beat somebody off the dribble a single time today. Not not once. I don't think he beat somebody off the dribble. And that just created all sorts of problems for everybody else on the inside. Nobody else is getting open inside. And frankly, once we switched them all, though, everything's switched. And I just don't understand why Jake Dibler, who I like Jake Dibler. I want Jake Dibler to be successful. How can you go that long and not see what is obvious to everyone needed to be changed? How can he go that long without adjusting? Yeah. And I've seen it. He did. He adjusted, but it was later. Like you said, I saw him starting to bring Bruce off ball and trying to run him through screens and sets to get him loose. Instead of him bringing a ball up court, but it was later. And so I think to ask you a question. I'm not saying this right, but you're thinking he's seen this before. He's your best player. Let him work through it. Let him make, you know, good decisions through it.

14:17And and press through it. And that's what I think Dibler was thinking. But it just obviously it just it didn't work well. But yes, running the offense through mobility. Was better, you know, as far as the flow of the offense and getting things going. But not just that, I mean, we turned the ball over seven times in the first half. And it just was conky. We didn't look in rhythm. TCU looked in rhythm. Now again, to their credit in the second half, they stepped up, started playing much better. You know, started matching that physicality. TCU got a little cold and whatnot, but just came up short. We can honestly, bro, we can talk about. Unless you got more to say about that, we can talk about what everybody's talking about. Which is that last 4.3 seconds left. And what happened on that play. And I mean. That was that was rough. That was frustrating. First of all, shout out to Dev before we get into that Nevada.

15:17I agree with you, Dev. He mentioned in the group chat. The group chat that you can't give up that position. Now, by the name of the freshman, he's a he's a pretty big physical kid. And that TCU kid is no, no slouch. But I agree. You can't let him get that deep in the paint. I thought we played good defense on punch on that play. But that TCU kid was white. He was established deep in the paint. And at that point, I'm just, I'm glad Bynum didn't foul him. But that was just tough, man. Nevada, what you got? Well, you know, I'm. Yeah, I mean, would I like to have seen Bynum, you know, play a little bit of defense on that. Yeah, but I, you know, I just thought it was a good play by TCU. I mean, he was able to wall him off. And look, they got a, they got a great shot in that situation. I just, again, from a coaching standpoint, when you're looking at the clock, and you see that there's going to be about a four or four and a half second difference. But if they run it down to the very end, which they did credit to TCU. But given the rules where you can't advance the ball, I'm telling, I'm telling my guys.

16:20You've got to get the ball in balance and you've got to get the ball across half court. And then we call the timeout. You know what I'm saying? Like anything you do, you've got to get the ball into the front court. And then you call the timeout. I think, you know, but again, that's, that's the kind of, that's, this isn't a second guess. This was something I was saying with numbers 30 seconds. When TCU was setting up their shot, I'm like, you've got to anticipate that. And you got to tell them the guys, look, when this happens, you know, if they score, get it into the front court. Let's call timeout. Let's get something set up. Let's run a play. He was obviously what they were doing. They're coming in high to Tilly. He was going to go back to Thornton and Thornton was going to try to run down and hit kind of an Evan Turner, you know, jumper. But, you know, there's not a lot of great plays when you can't advance the ball to mid court with 4.3 seconds ago. So as much as people want to be mad, I don't, I'm not as mad at him for that play. But I think the setup to that could have been better. You know, which goes to the whole day, I felt like the entire day, I didn't feel like we came

17:22out with the right kind of intensity. I didn't feel like we came out with the right kind of defense. I didn't feel like we came out playing the type of game that we really needed to play in order to win, you know, and incidentally, you know, game. It's literally the first game of the tournament and we're out already. And it just, you know, it to me, I thought that every one of Jake Debeler's deficiencies were on display today as a head coach. And I think his inexperienced showed. And, you know, for me, who's been somebody who's been, you know, pretty much on the, you know, definitely, I think we got to give Debel more time. Now I'm, I'm not sure. I'm really, I think to me, it really depends on who might be available as a potential thing. Because I just, I thought that some of the mistakes he made were just so rudimentary that it really has, it has me questioning, you know, his abilities head coach. Maybe that's fair, maybe that's unfair, but that's where I'm at.

18:23And I hear you, here's the last play. So I think you know it to where it's 4.3 seconds and the ball's not advanced. So I was kind of tripped into myself like, some of these takes on, oh, they drew that up. I mean, there's not much you can do. I mean, we've seen it. We've seen team score from this. I mean, it was, it had to be executed perfectly, you know, you got a guy. I would have gave it to Moby in this situation. I think he's faster than a Bruce Thornton and he's a better distant shooter. Like, I would, if you're going to draw that up, I would have drew it up for a Moby. Not only that, but the other team is looking for your senior, your all time leading score to get the ball. And you see there's two guys on them. And so I don't know, that's just me, but yes, I agree that. And I don't even say the hindsight, but knowing what's coming, knowing you only have one time out left.

19:28Just signal to your guys, get it across, get it across, you know, that should be something you do in practice. In that situation, that would have gave them a better chance to come off the screen and get a clean look for three. You know, or even a, or even throw it down low to get a foul or something. But yeah, man, I knew when this happened, it was a rap barring a miracle, but unfortunate. Now, as far as what you said about Debler. Yeah, I mean, here's the thing I said this before. I don't think Jake Debler is a bad coach. I think he can be a very good coach. I think he might have been brought into early. I think he's a guy that probably would have had been in a better situation, success wise, maybe. If he was brought in three years after the hope and like he went to a max school, cut his teeth, came back. He was, he was retained. I think the brass saw that he was good with the kids.

20:31Good coach. He's bright, but today probably showed, like you said, his efficiencies that he's still learning. And so, you know, but also I do not want to discount the fact that I'm not going to act like Jake Debler went into this tournament with a deep roster and a fully loaded NIO clip and other stuff. If they're going to keep him, they need to make sure they provide him with everything he needs to get players on this roster. Period. Now, I told you all, I just want Buckeye basketball to be a lead. I want Buckeye basketball to compete for championships like under that matter. You know, like how we work consistently, sweet 16 or you know, like in the tournament elite. That's what I want. If that's getting rid of Debler, okay, but who are we going to get? And that's not a question saying we shouldn't. I'm just saying it better be somebody good. We better put the full resources that we have for this basketball program behind them. Period.

21:34I don't care who it is. Debler or somebody else. That's something we need to step up with is making sure we put more intentional emphasis into this program because I want to be fair. Debler is, you know, he may say he's made mistakes. He may be early into his blessing and arrived a little early, but let's not act like he's had the full support and had a full, you know, deep roster. He hasn't. He has no bench. So to me, we got to look at both sides, but either way, I want to fix the question is. Is Debler, is this going to be looked at by the brass Nevada by the Buckeye, you know, administration as. Hey, we made progress. We won the most big 10 games. We wanted four seasons. We made the tournament for the first time. The players like him. They respond to him. We got a McDonald's on American coming next year. Let's keep building this. Let's add more. I mean, is that how they're going to look at it?

22:34Probably. I don't think he's going to get fired. Regardless of what we say, what we think. I think they're going to keep him for another year at least. That's just my opinion. But Nevada, what you got on all that. Well, I mean, I guess the question I asked is like, I'm world hire state. You can talk about the roster and I get that. But like, do you think high point has a better roster than we do? You know, I mean, you know, I honestly don't know high points, but I'm going to say no, but. Yeah. I mean, because high points certainly doesn't have the resources that we do or the reputation or the recruiting base. Or you know, I'm saying none of that, but you know, they managed to put the other team and you know, beep was kind. And I know it's one game and everything else like that. But it's just. You know, you just wonder. You know, are you getting better? Are you getting worse? You know what I'm saying? And I think for Ohio State. I've got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi, Dan. Hey, how's it going today? It's going good, man. Tell us who you are and what you do.

23:35I'm Dan Morgan. I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan Morgan, which is America's largest injury law firm. That's pretty awesome. I think I saw Billboard years recently that said that 20 billion won. 20 billion is an insane number. Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It's actually, I think, somewhere north probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and better and our army grows. So the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on. Awesome. So how does someone get in contact with Morgan and Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident? Probably the easiest way is dialing pound law. It's pound 529 from your cell phone. We are always open. Our call center is always waiting to take your call. 24-7365. Wow. Dan Morgan. From Morgan and Morgan, America's largest injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the show. Thanks for having me. Visit forthepeople.com for an office near you. You know, I guess we're marginally better than we were last year. But, you know, it's deeper the guide.

24:35You know, are you, are you delaying the inevitable? You know, are, do you see Jake Gieber? Yeah. I mean, I guess the question would be, like, do you think Jake Gieber will be the head coacher to house eight and five years or 10 years? You know what I mean? Like, do you think he's got that kind of longevity? And I know it's kind of an impossible question to answer. It's all hypothetical. But, you know, it's, it's one of those things where, you know, I just don't, I don't know. And, you know, I, like I said, I, I'm willing to ride with a lot of things regarding, you know, at the end of the day, I'm a big believer in, you know, it's not the Xs and O's. It's the Jimmy's and Joe's and the, and they've got to, you know, they've got to perform. But in basketball of all the games, man, the coaches have such an impact because they, they affect everything on in bounds plays on. Rotations on, you know, switching defense.

25:35And there's all sorts of things that the coaches directly impact on almost a possession, a possession basis. And so, you know, a coach is just so, so important to your success. I just don't know if Debra can be. I, I, I, like, said, I'm really struggling with the fact that Debra took that long to get them on the mobile his hands. I mean, I, I get trying to play with him. If the thing about what you said, if everything you're saying, they're playing two guys over the top on under shading the entire defense, they're playing a triangle over the top. I mean, then how do you have that guy just keep running into that vast front over and over and over again when you've got, you know, a player mobility who can get it done. You know, I'm sound like that he's, he's a guy. He's a viable option. It's all like he hasn't done it with the ball in his hands. So far this year, I just don't know how it could take Debra that long to figure that out. That, that's the thing is kind of confound of me way more. So then the, you know, the play design on the last play or, you know, should we have stayed in his own defense or any of the other, or even his rotations.

26:40I mean, even, you know, getting cut in there and doing some of the things that he did. I don't know. I mean, you know, I'm the last play again. Do you give it to mobility who least score or do you give it to the guy who's three of mine from the floor? I, you know, I don't know, you know, any any option you had was bad. That one 4.3 seconds. We've all seen the Christian late nerthing and we, you know, look, I know it can happen, but it's hard. It's, it's really really hard. And it, you know, it's a, it's a low, it's a low percentage play. No matter, no matter, you know, how you go about it. So, but I don't know. I, I, let me put you, if I'm on high state, I am definitely working the following to see who's available. And working to see if there is an upgrade for it because I think you're really at an inflection point with the program right now. And if you're going to make a move, I think this is the time to make it. I don't, I don't think. So if you're not going to keep them long term, then I think you get rid of them now. Okay. I think you just cut your losses and move on.

27:44Yeah. The question is, will they do that? I just don't know. I'm not confident they will. And I'm showing this clip also because look at the aggression from going back to what we talked about with Bruce Jordan. Look at the, look at the, the, the lack of hesitant. Like he just, he just, I wish Bruce in this game because again, they were all over him. They were, they were trying to take him out of the game. I get that. But as a star player, the captain of your team. Boom. He did not hesitate. Pull it up. Like it was needed. Like, boom, like he, that was a big bucket for him. That's what your leader should be doing. And to me, I feel like early in the game. I don't know if it was frustration. I don't know what it was, but you got to find a way. Yes, you want to be patient. Somebody's open. If they're doubling you, make the right play. I get all of that.

28:46But you also have to pick your spots and be aggressive. And to me, this, he did not hesitate. He pulled up in his face and stroked it. Boom. Like that was needed throughout the entire gang to really set the tone and lead your team. But anyway, yeah, Nevada. I mean, listen, I hear you. You mentioned a high point. I mean, look, we smashed Wisconsin to by 17. I wasn't that high on Wisconsin. I had them losing the next round anyway. And shoot, CNN gave Duke all they can handle today. This tournament, you better come ready. You better be ready to play. I don't care how deep your roster is. It's like every year we get, we get reminded of how, how big this tournament is. And you see little teams take out big teams and 12s take out fives and whatever. But I don't know Nevada. I mean, the question for me is, what is Bjork in this administration going to do? I'm not pounding the table to keep dealer. I'm saying, okay, if you get rid of dealer, you better be on the phones and find someone who is like, hey, yo, this is a stud coach.

29:54I want that. I don't want to, you know what? He might be okay. No. If you fire dealer, go get somebody. Be aggressive like you would be in football and go get somebody that says, this is a home run higher. And this is just it. Nevada. Do you think they can do that? Because to be honest with you, Nevada, before you jump in, I'm not as confident in this administration. To do that in basketball as, as I am in football, you know what I'm saying? So it's like, I just don't know. Oh, I just give you a fun fact. It'll fun stat. And then I'll give it back to the question. Do you know that Bruce Thornton hit the, his first three point of the game in 33, 33 seconds into the game. And then hit his last three pointer with 33 seconds left in the game. Between that period in time, between that period of time, he had one basket.

30:57Good Lord, but between the first race between 33 seconds and last. So in the last, in 39 minutes, he had one basket. Yeah. You know, you know, it's that. And it's just like that can't happen. No, no, no, look, I mean, 39 minutes, one basket and two free throws. That's all that that was it. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, look, cano house they do it. Absolutely. I mean, like Ohio State just signed Nadine, Missouri, all their hockey coach to a new five year contract. You know, keeping her away from Minnesota. I mean, they, Ohio State can do whatever they want. In basketball, basketball is not in a relevant sport. Not talking about, you know, archery or, you know, fencing or something like that or, you know, women's lacrosse. We're talking about basketball. I mean, it's a revenue sport. It's a sport where you actually make money if you've got a decent team. There's no reason they shouldn't have, you know, they've got great facilities.

31:58They've got a great recruiting base. They've got a great reputation. They've got a history of success in recent success. So to me, I think they've got to be working the phones going after it and trying to see what's available. Because, you know, I want to see what options they might have for this. Yeah. I mean, they should do their due diligence for sure. Like I said, to me, well, first of all, I agree, obviously, basketball is not football, but it's not. I don't know, rifle, or they actually won national championships at a house later. Good to, but you get my point. Talk about revenue. Like I get that. I understand that. But to me, I haven't seen a ton of evidence in the past years to show that they're putting as much emphasis on the basketball program. So I'm skeptical hippo with them actually making a splash like that. I don't think it's impossible. You sure they can.

32:58But will they? That's my question. And here's a Bruce Thornton walking off the court, dejected. Last game and all that man sucks. And it was a, it was an emotional roller coaster today with down 15 at the have. I'm thinking, I kept saying to my people, boring a small miracle. This game is over, which I still stand by that because to me, I was being able to come back like we did with this small miracle. Because we just, we were just bad in that first half. But then, you know, the roller coaster go back up and then can crashing down at the end. And it was very frustrating, very sad. But this is what's been going on with this program. Past four years, the first time in a tournament in the past four years is tough in itself. So I don't know, man, Nevada, that's going to be the question, Mark, for me, what are we going to do? Are we going to keep Jake? If we keep Jake, what are we going to do to step up with NIO funds portal?

34:03You know, make sure we bring guys in here, not, not mid guys, but high level guys that can come in and play and make a big impact. And, and all that. So that's the question. I mean, you know, that's pretty much it at the end of the day, Nevada. What else you got? Yeah, now I think I'm going to go with my final answer being I think Ohio State is going to be looking. I'm going to be definitely testing the lines with the, with the agents that know about this stuff, whether or not Ohio State is really looking forward. But I just, I think something like this, I mean, I think, I think Ohio State fans, you saw it in the intro. I mean, Ohio State fans really want to support the basketball team. They really want to get behind the basketball team. I've got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi, Dan. Hey, how's it going today? It's going good, man. Tell us who you are and what you do. I'm Dan Morgan. I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan Morgan, which is America's largest injury law firm. That's pretty awesome.

35:04I think I saw Billboard years recently that said 20 billion one. 20 billion is an insane number. Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It's actually, I think, somewhere north probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and better and our army grows. So the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on. Awesome. So how does someone get in contact with Morgan and Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident? Probably the easiest way is dialing pound law. It's pound 529 from your cell phone. We are always open or call centers always waiting to take your call. 24 7 365. Wow, Dan Morgan from Morgan and Morgan America's largest injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the show. Thanks for having me. Visit forthepeople.com for an office near you. But, you know, something like this where, you know, you're right. The first half, it looked like we were completely outclassed by TCU, you know, in every way. And again, they were up 15 and felt like it could have been higher than that. But, you know, we managed to take a five point lead in the second half.

36:06And then, you know, you, you, you know, to have. Yeah, I feel like it was our, it was our lack of experience. And, and I mean, I gotta say it coaching. I really think coaching costs us today. I think if we had a more experienced coach, we would have won the game today. I think it'll be a fad map, fad moda. Even if we think of we have just holding, I think we don't want the game for that. But, you know, that, again, that hypothetical, you know, we'll never know. I, I, I, I, I thought, I thought deeper was really bad today. And I, and I've ruined it for I like deeper. I like that. I love that loves his brother. I want to deal with it. But I just, I'm trying to think about, you know, even our in-bounds play, you know, like, one thing he'd been really making his bones on is how many, you know, how often we'd scored off of in-bounds plays and stuff. And I, I didn't even like our in-bounds plays. I didn't, I just, I didn't like our offensive sets. I didn't like the way we were doing it. Nothing seemed to make sense. And, you know, you know, it just kind of all, you know, criticized it.

37:10And so I'm going to go with my final answer is going to be a house that's going to be looking. But I'm going to, I'll know here the next 24, 48 hours of their, if they're making calls because this is, this is when they start making them right now. Yes. I was going to say, please, holler at your sources because I want to know, I want to know, you know, because again, I just, my confidence is through the roof with Ohio State football doing whatever it takes to get to keep the beast going. I'm not a confident in Buckeye basketball. I'm just not. So yes, please keep us posted on that Nevada. But before we close out, I did want to bring out one thing that's non-basketball related. I thought was very interesting. Nevada, I'm going to share my screen real quick. And the chat, tell me if y'all heard about this because it's tournament time. And I think this is kind of like just kind of flying under the radar. But did y'all see the incident approved changes to targeting suspension in one year trial.

38:14So here it is. For at least one season, a targeting penalty will no longer automatically take a college football player off the field for the following game. 21 football, both subdivision oversight committee on Thursday approved a one year trial rule that gives a player a break for his first targeting penalty. For the 26 season, a player disqualified for targeting for the first time in the season can participate in the following game. The trial rule will apply regardless of which half the targeting penalty is caught. A player who draws a second targeting penalty of this season will be required to sit out the first half of the next game. A player who draws his third targeting of the season must sit out the full following game. And then it notes that there were no players that were disqualified for targeting three times in the twenty twenty twenty five season. So to me, this is low key significant because we've been talking about the targeting rule. I know Joe clat has hated it. He's been pounding the table others have mentioned it.

39:14I thought this was interesting. So I wanted to quickly touch on this before we bang out of here Nevada. What's your thoughts on this brother? Well, first of all, I hate the targeting rule period. So let me just say, you know, I let me explain to you with the fundamental flaws in targeting targeting was set up to deal with the most egregious types of hits. You know what I'm saying? And you know, it's like that old saying by Justice Potter, they asked him the definition of pornography. And he goes, I know it when I see it, you know what I'm saying? Like that's kind of I feel a targeting like we know it when we see it. Like, so if you have a hit and I'm you know what I'm talking about. You've been in a house they fan, you know, for like, you know, when we see guys get disqualified for games for hits were at the last second. A quarterback ducks his head and a shoulder pad hits him the side. You know what I'm saying? Something like that. That to me is not targeting until so until they I like the intention that they're trying to make the penalties less punitive on this stuff.

40:19But I think until they deal with the entire rule. And I think the problem is with the when you slow everything down to slow motion. Okay. In slow motion, there's head contact almost every single play. You know what I'm saying? Some part of your body is going to make contact with the other person's head on 90% of the same. You know what I'm saying? Like it could be your forearm. It could be your hand. It could be your shoulder. It could be your wrist. I mean, something's going to make contact with the head or neck area on just about every play. So when you're slowing it down like that and they're going to doing the review like that. I really think it's just got to be. I've always felt like there should be like two penalties like one for the most egregious ones and another. Should be a five yard. I don't know. I don't know what exactly what the answer is. But I think it's just I don't like the application of the rule in general. The way that they do it. I think about that. That game that we played against Clemson.

41:20When we got the remember we got the targeting penalty on the. I shot away on the on the on the sack of Trevor. Like to be there is no way in the world. That is targeting. But that got called for targeting. And so until you address that to me, that's way worse than. This stuff about first penalty second penalty, the third period, one game, half game, no game, whatever. I just hate the rule period and. You know, until they change that, then. You know, I don't know where to go with that. I mean, what do you think about targeting? How do you feel about the application and how do you feel about how the rules have been called in recent years? I mean, you you kind of just spoke my mind and you brought up that shine weight targeting penalty to me is the chair. It's the crown jewel of terribleness when it comes to targeting. And it's no it's not just because I'm a book. I fan he dropped his head sunshine dropped his head. Right at the moment when shine weight was coming.

42:22If he doesn't drop his head, they don't call targeting. And they still shouldn't have called target because it wasn't targeting. Like to me there has to be common sense to it. You review it. You see all the player dropped his head. Like, come on, man. Like listen, I one thing I do agree with Joe clap is. It's it's a it's a. The rule is terrible because it's so subjective. You can have a guy do one thing and get caught and then another guy and another game do the same thing I get caught. So listen, you spoke my mind. I don't really have much else to say you're right on it, but that's shine weight play against Clemson. That was so trash and that's still haunts me is like two two plays in that game. I like the worst plays in my book. I fandom of officiating. So yeah, I'm kind of happy to see that they're not getting. Go ahead. No, it's going to I know the second one was the Akuda one were you know on the on the. Yeah, the fun bowl recurring.

43:23Yeah, which is the worst column in the history of calls. But I think it goes to a more basic thing. And this is something we've talked about before, but it's it's about replay. And you know, replay was set up. To reverse. In this beautiful video evidence of air on the field in this fetal, meaning no two reasonable people. Could draw different conclusions from watching the same tape. I feel the same way should be with targeting if it's not so clear and obvious. You can't call targeting, you know, with review review should not be. I think or oh, yeah, that looks like or yeah, that appears to be it should only be black and white. I think targeting should only be black and white. I think review should only be black and white. And and I think too many times the review official, the guy they want to get involved. They want to make the big call. They want to do the thing. And I just think until they change that until they get the application right.

44:23Replay. I think it it dribbles into into targeting as well. I think they should be the same standard. In this fetal video, it should have to be, it's indisfeetable video evidence of targeting. Like there's no question in your mind. It shouldn't be, well, yeah, that kind of looked like that or wow, he did come drop a cell. And there's any doubt it shouldn't be a penalty. That's just where I'm at. And that's how I feel about review about replaying and you know, I've been saying that for years about replay. Yep, you have you been in the system of replay. And so I agree. I mean, I, I don't dislike this one year trial. I think it's cool that guys aren't. I think it predict protects guys from bad refereeing so that they don't get ejected for a half a game. Your best player because of a bad call. So I like that. Now what's going to happen after that trial. We'll see. But I thought that was interesting in the midst of the NCAA tournament. I thought that was a significant piece of information to update.

45:24So definitely want to wanted to run that by one, but listen. Ah, tough day did not end the way we wanted it to end. It is what it is. We'll see how the future holds with Devler and what Ohio State does and all that. And we'll absolutely keep you up on that. But spring practices back next week. We'll get on that. And we're always going to hit you with content and coverage. All things. We're going to hit you with any last words about it for the hop off here. Well, yeah. Now that. I mean, look, we can officially kind of close the book on the basketball. You know, obviously they'll, you know, kind of work on get ready for for next year. Be interested to see who they, who they return, who they get in the portal. What's going on with that? But, um, You know, Hey, but I thought balls going and we're going to have it. We're going to have a scrimmage next weekend. And that that'll be, Those are always fun because then we really get to see been the ball trip line. For sure. And top G center super chat. Thanks for the one and I got to go.

46:25This program needs a caliperio patino. So yeah, we're going to see. We are going to see. I agree. We deserve an elite coach. Um, Or, you know, can Devler be an elite coach three, four years from now? Maybe. Is it worth waiting to see? I don't know. Either way. We, you know, is we going to see in Nevada. I'm waiting to hear from your contacts, your agent folks to see what's really going on. But, you know, time will tell, I will tell. Um, What do you think about those names? Caliperio patino. I know he doesn't mean literally them. But it looks like he's saying this program needs a caliperio patino type coach. Would you think about that? Well, you know, I wouldn't mind some of these from stature. I wouldn't even mind some of these from stature and some baggage. I don't, that, that stuff doesn't bother me. I think, I think all of college basketball recruiting is a little crooked. And people can say what they want about that. But that's just the way that I feel. I feel like I, I know that industry will enough to know how dirty that is.

47:25So if they had to get somebody with some, that's the, I don't have a problem with it. Either that, or you know, you go with the last on our span. The last honest man in coaching you, you get. From the cheese it should get B Moses. You get B Moses. And you bring him in there. And you're like, look, we're going to go with ethicalness. We're going to go with you. You're kind of coach Carter. You can put like, hey, you're like my reputation's up there on the wall. There are guys. I'm just putting them up there and. Can leads to victory. The old like you did the cheeses. I mean, cheeses came together like this year. They were like a, like a dispirited group. They come out there and you molded them into champions. They all woke up with the cheeses when at the end of the day. You know, they're definitely cheeses at the end of the day. Do I have my cheesy graphic? Where's my cheesy graph? I didn't upload it here. Did I? I didn't get. I wanted to share it. I might have to upload it. Oh, no, there it is. There it is right here. Hold on.

48:25Did it pop up? Oh, there you go. That is good. That's got to be, that's got to be a Halloween costume. That is bad to be a Halloween costume. Oh, man. That is hilarious. I'm available though. I'll tell you what. I would recruit. Well, I know how talk to the young boys. Young boys. Oh, I'm sure. I'm sorry. You better. You better open up with them. A little bit out there. Just say, hey, let's play a little one on one there. And if I beat you, then you, you can go outside. Then you commit. Deal. Be open up. Then we will know. Then you, then you can go outside. Then you can go outside. Then you commit. Deal. Then you commit. Deal. Then you started ragin'

49:25see that before. Oh, yeah. Is his dad? He's playing one on one. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, go watch it. I'm thinking I'm thinking more like blue chips or something like that. You're like the Nick Nolte. Look good on this guy. I think it's lured into the lured rule of recruiting them. You're delivering tractors out to something out there in the farm. Happy was the name. Happy was the blister's name. Dropping bags off and tractors and I mean, they had penny hard away. Shack. Who was the white boy with the jumper that had the try. I forget his name for Indiana. You get for Indiana, right? Yeah, that movie. That was that movie was crazy. Al Bundy was the investigative reporter. I might have to go back and watch that. That's good stuff. So we always go off with the tangent. But listen, listen, it's all good. Man, we love doing this. It's fun today sucked, but it is what it is. We still got football. We still got football. You all we got it. We're going to be good. So

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